Imagination is always the fabric of social life and the dynamic of history. The influence of real needs and compulsions, of real interests and materials, is indirect because the crowd is never conscious of it.

Seek not, my soul, the life of the immortals; but enjoy to the full the resources that are within thy reach.

I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be realized, than lord among those without dreams and desires.

People like things they can do now, not just think about.

Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame.